The latest addition to the "Medieval Effigies" series is based on the other effigy on Matilda Burghersh's tomb. Thomas Chaucer...

Oil on carved wood, 2019 27" x 9" by Alex Naszados based on the brass effigy of Matilda Burghersh (1382-1436) at St. Mary the Virgin...

Before his death, Ralph Hamsterley commissioned this “memento mori” brass effigy. It is now embedded in the floor of St. Andrew’s Church,...

The brass effigy of Sir Simon de Wensley (d. 1394) is still situated in Holy Trinity Church (Wensley, North Yorkshire), where he was...

As I wrote in my previous blog post, the last two additions to the Medieval Monuments series (the shrouded husband and wife) constitute a...

Shroud and skeletal brasses are a smaller subset of brasses, and a rather morbid one. These often show emaciated or skeletal figures...

After two pieces depicting knights, I turned my attention to the brass monument of Alyne Clopton (1325). The original image suggests to...

At the left is the next piece in the medieval monument group (now in the early carving stage). The similarities to the (now complete)...

I have graduated from carving to painting with the first piece in the "Medieval Effigies" project. The man here is Sir Robert de Septvans...